Personal Injury/Tort

On Aug. 2, 2008, the patient, 33, was at approximately 41 weeks of gestation with the following risk factors: She was morbidly obese with a body mass index of 45; the estimated weight of the child at delivery was over ...

Where a judge dismissed a disparate screening claim, the dismissal order must be vacated because the plaintiffs’ allegations are sufficient to raise a trialworthy case under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, 42 U.S.C. §1395dd.

Where the plaintiff was denied supplemental security income and disability insurance benefits, the administrative law judge’s decision that there exist jobs in significant numbers in the national economy that she could perform despite her bipolar disorder is based on substantial evidence.

On Feb. 18, 2012, the plaintiff was driving home from work when the defendant drifted into her lane, causing a violent collision. The plaintiff was diagnosed with a comminuted fracture of both the patella and the ulnar shaft. She immediately ...

On April 24, 2008, the plaintiff driver was rear-ended by another car while she was stopped and waiting to make a left turn. The defendant driver’s automobile insurer paid the plaintiff’s available insurance policy limits of $20,000 to settle her ...